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Title: STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND READ THIS!
By: Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen, Zadie Smith
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £6.99


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ISBN 10: 1446484807
ISBN 13: 9781446484807
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 1 December, 2011
Pages: 192
Description: Why should you stop what you're doing and read a book? This book features authors and passionate advocates from the worlds of science, publishing, technology and social enterprise who tell us about the experience of reading, why access to books should never be taken for granted, how reading transforms our brains, and how literature can save lives.
Synopsis: In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams.Why should you stop what you're doing and read a book?People have always needed stories. We need literature - novels, poetry - because we need to make sense of our lives, test our depths, understand our joys and discover what humans are capable of. Great books can provide companionship when we are lonely or peacefulness in the midst of an overcrowded daily life. Reading provides a unique kind of pleasure and no-one should live without it.In the ten essays in this book some of our finest authors and passionate advocates from the worlds of science, publishing, technology and social enterprise tell us about the experience of reading, why access to books should never be taken forgranted, how reading transforms our brains, and how literature can save lives. In any 24 hours there are so many demands on your time and attention - make books one of them.Carmen Callil Tim ParksNicholas Carr Michael RosenJane Davis Zadie SmithMark Haddon Jeanette WintersonBlake Morrison Dr Maryanne Wolf & Dr Mirit Barzillai
Publication: UK
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Returns: Returnable
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